Posted on 09/18/2011 2:04:40 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
NEW YORK -- In Tiffany Spaulding's 12 years in the pharmaceutical industry, she has worked for three companies, two of which no longer exist, and relocated to four states.
Now 39 and living in Brookfield, Conn., she hasn't had a promotion in five years and says she sees no chance to advance, stuck behind a wall of baby boomers. She would quit and turn her hobby of jewelry design into a business, she says, if not for the home and school loans that eat up half her salary.
Spaulding, according to a new report, is a typical member of the relatively small group called Generation X, 46 million Americans born between 1965 and 1978: They're ambitious, squeezed by debt and frustrated by people who aren't retiring on schedule. More than a third hope to leave their jobs in three years, a survey of more than 1,100 members of Generation X by the Center for Work-Life Policy found.
Perhaps booze or pot use can explain your sentence?
We have her on display the socialist and populist belief that there is only a fixed finite amount of wealth in the world and hence, a fixed amount of work to be done. That was the origin of the 40 hour week and lots of other labor laws. The work week was restricted to 40 hours (without T&1/2) in order to force employers to hire more employees to “share the work.” If the dead hand of government is not squashing industry and initiative then the amount of available work is equal to the number of available and willing workers and industry constantly invents new ways for workers to produce more as there is a limited number of workers. When the government tries to fix things, just as when the government tries to make things fair or when the government tries to destroy things the result is the same. We are living it now.
right, so you make love to your dog and wipe your ass with your hand to save the earth.
The New Medical System will pretty much cut off medicine for those past arbitrarily fixed retirement age. You work all your life and save for retirement and when you retire, apparently comfortable and with your possible medical needs of old age also prepared for then you retire and find out you are not allowed to use your saved money for your medical care. The government says it is time for you to die so that the government can share your wealth out before you use it up in medical trivia.
Well, well, well, look at this thread. I think we've found a couple of voting blocs to be exploited in the next election.
We can only hope it divides the left deeper...
right, thanks for reminding me. re #126: genx’ers will vote for obamacare, because it will eliminate babyboomers.
And then wake up and realize that we are dreaming.
It is not what you don't know that hurts you, it is that you think you know something when you really know nothing.
I hope for your sake you put your gameboy down and grow up.
How did you draw that conclusion?
Child, what distinguishes Eaker from you is wisdom.
There is all kinds of process knowledge, institutional knowledge, painfully accumulated heuristics which look merely antiquated until they are violated, but by then everything is in flame and ruins, beyond the point of repair.
Like the strictures about 20% LTV and mortgage payments of 28% of income at most.
Anybody who says they know anything today is an idiot. Nobody knows nothing today because it’s obsolete tomorrow. If it isn’t then your industry isn’t one of consequence. Change is the only constant.
You must be wanking off over Fast Company again.
There's such a thing a knowledge base: for most purposes, calculus and differential equations haven't changed since the 1800s. Computers still exist to add, subtract, divide, multiply, and store results in a form which is compact and enables rapid retrieval. You still have to get the oil out of the ground, refine it, and ship it to market. The IRS still has its hand out. And there's STILL no such thing as a free lunch.
On the other hand, a lot of the breathlessly proclaimed "new knowledge" is lies and propaganda.
Doonesbury was once cutting-edge and hip and thought to be intellectual.
All the leading aurhorities were agreed that eating fat made you fat, and that margarine was healthier than butter.
People thought it would be good for the U.S. to "move up the value chain" and work on financial services rather than the pedestrian work of manufacturing consumer goods.
And mantras like 'smart growth' and 'green jobs' and 'hip homosexual enclaves to attract tomorrow's knowledge worker' were the very cutting edge of business leadership.
Funny how all the youngsters come in proclaiming "THIS time it's different, because I'M in charge!"
You know, like too-cool-for-mortal-comprehension, the-oceans-will-rise-and-the-planet-will-begin-to-heal Obama.
How's that Hopey-Changey working out for your generation, there, sonny?
As one wag has said, the history of the human race can be summarized by the following two questions:
1) "What could possibly go wrong?"
to be followed shortly by
2) "But how was *I* supposed to know?"
Keep shooting off your mouth.
If you're lucky, you'll learn.
As P.J. O'Rourke said, Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut.
Until then, kneel before your betters, dog.
(Eaker, your ball.)
Cheers!
That is a very valuable point.
There is such a push for everyone to get a college degree that very often a major is chosen without thought as to its usefulness in everyday life. And coming out of college with the debt associated with that degree would scare me out of my mind.
My Nice went to a state university (5 year program, lol) and ended up being a teacher. A respectable profession, but not really well paid. She will be paying those loans back when she is as old as me. Conversely, I know kids that took AP courses in high school, got scholarships, did a couple of years in community college...and worked throughout. They have come out relatively unscathed.
And of course in my world, there is great value in being a plumber or HVAC tech. Hard work, but needed professions that will never be outsourced.
(I know, a little thread drift...but you made an excellent point.)
Working is a great way for some/many to stay alive.”
And buy groceries, pay our taxes, keep our car and our house, etc. Like many of my older friends, I found a nitch several years ago and honed the skills necessary to fill it. Had enough foresight to develop something that I could continue doing for profit as long as my fingers, eyes and brains continue to function all at the same time. Gen X people need to be a little more creative and willing to sacrifice to develop their own path.
Your job is to help train the new engineers and communicate for them if they have an awkward manner of affirmation. Instead you provoke. You are destructive to any organization regardless of your proficiency in your skill set. I would replace you with a 12 year Chinese exchange student.
Nice=Niece
You might want to re-think that....
I’m a boomer. Give me my money back and I go away. I did not start this shit
You might want to re-think that....
I am 47 years old. Contemplate that while you throw me under the bus. Stupid and Ignorant is no way to go through life.
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